Police arrested an 18-year-old man in Southport, near Liverpool, UK as part of an investigation into the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that took down Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live systems last year.

First it was porn; now, it's your video games. The National Security Agency has been monitoring online games including World of Warcraft, Second Life and video games on Xbox Live, sometimes even using undercover agents disguised as trolls or orcs. Th...

Uploading profanity-laced gameplay videos using tools on the Xbox One could cause players to lose some of their Xbox Live access, according to a statement released by Microsoft on Tuesday. The bans were discovered after Xbox One gamers posted on Xbox...

Valve's gaming platform Steam has 65 million users, beating out Xbox Live for the first time ever. Steam -- a gaming platform for PC, Mac and Linux -- has gained 30% of its users in the last 12 months, according to a Valve press release. Xbox Live, M...

Microsoft has improved the Xbox Live experience for the upcoming Xbox One console, enhancing the friends feature and adding a follow function for new ways to consume content on Xbox Live. Unlike the static friends list from the Xbox 360 offering, the...

For those partial to pizza and nostalgic for the '90s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows hits Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam for PC Wednesday. This brawler evokes the classic TMNT arcade games, blended with the art sty...

The Xbox Live Marketplace finally switched to pricing things in real currency amounts, doing away with the system's proprietary Microsoft Points. Microsoft announced the transition away from Microsoft Points a few months ago, and Monday's Xbox Live u...

Microsoft invited players to install a beta version of an updated Xbox Live platform on their Xbox 360 consoles on Friday to collect feedback. Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson posted the invitation on his blog early Friday morning. Players can log...

Xbox Live users can download the Twitch app Tuesday, and access streaming video game content from Twitch users and channels. Viewers can watch the top 300 Twitch channels live, and browse through the content by game, by channel and by featured conten...

Xbox Live exclusively debuted British comedy Pulp on Monday -- a first for Microsoft's online gaming and entertainment-streaming service. The movie, about a scrappy comic book store owner's encounter with a gang of money-laundering criminals, bypasse...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is more than a gaming device. In fact, owners are spending more time playing video and music than games on the device, Yusuf Mehdl, senior vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, disclosed on sta...

Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of Xbox Live, Microsoft's online gaming platform for the Xbox and the Xbox 360. For the last decade, Xbox Live has offered both a marketplace and online play space for gamers. It started in 2002 on Microsoft's ori...

Forget decreased attention spans, neglected studies and pasty complexions. Parents of teenagers can add a new talking point to their anti-gaming rhetoric: meeting co-conspirators to runaway from home with. Four Iowa teens went missing this weekend, a...

Update: The service is now back online. Microsoft's Xbox LIVE service is currently down, and Microsoft is working on a fix. Microsoft's Service Status page says that users may experience difficulties with signing into Xbox LIVE from an Xbox console a...

Xbox Live announced on Friday its first wave of games coming to the new Windows 8 operating system, including popular hits such as Angry Birds and Buck Hunter Pro to exclusive titles. It was announced earlier this year that Windows 8 would come with ...

This week, Sony announced the launch of its new Google TV set-top box, the NSZ-GS7 Internet player, giving us one more option for watching TV and movies minus the cable box. If you'd like to shift content from your small-screen laptop to the giant fl...

Over the past few years, indie gaming has exploded from a hobby of few to a viable business for those with great game ideas. Thanks to distribution services like Steam, the Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network, console and PC owners have a wi...

Long-time Microsoft watchers like me are marveling at the company’s transformation. Slowly but surely, the siloed behemoth that once couldn’t get its desktop and mobile operating system teams to talk to each other is now starting to glide forward as ...

Xbox 360 has added several new apps to its gaming console's Xbox Live package as part of an effort to make it an all-in-one entertainment system. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it added access to various cable networks including Comcast Xfinity,...

Given their recent display of copious spending, it’s no surprise that social games empire Zynga will stop at nothing in order to increase its already enormous reach. With its history of spending sprees and expansion over the past few years, it’s actu...

Gamers will be disappointed to learn that there is no plan to release a new console to replace the six-year-old Xbox 360 anytime soon, according to a statement from Microsoft. With this year's E3 less than three months away, many hoped Microsoft woul...

Alan Wake's American Nightmare, a game spun off from the popular psychological thriller Alan Wake, will be released in less than a week, and here's an exclusive look at its newest trailer. The game, set to be released on the XBox Live Arcade, is desc...

The release of Microsoft's hotly anticipated Xbox 360 dashboard update earlier this month is causing a bit of a problem for some Xbox Live members: They still can't get their consoles online. Microsoft recently rolled out a big dashboard update to th...

Microsoft just rolled out a big dashboard update to the Xbox 360. In addition to new voice and gesture controls, Microsoft has also updated its terms of service agreement with a new clause that prevents users from suing Microsoft in the event somethi...

A new project promises to bring your Xbox Live avatar to life. CafePress and Microsoft Xbox have teamed up to turn gamers' avatars into customized merchandise, including t-shifts, flip fops and hoodies. We could see this being the perfect gift for th...

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